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News From Wednesday, January 31, 2007
11:33:18 PM Tangled Bank 72: What's in a name?
Methuselah Foundation - Washington,DC,USA

.... illustrates the way in which new data (or the re-examination of old data) can force paleontologists to reconsider prior classifications. ... [more]

10:35:38 PM "Hobbit" Resting Site Reopened--and Newly Expanded
Scientific American - USA

.... an umbrella term for conditions that stunt brain growth at ages four or five, says paleoanthropologist Dean Falk of Florida State University. ... [more]

3:28:21 PM First Stegosaurus fossil found in Europe
China View, Beijing, China

Peter Makovicky, a paleontologist at the Field Museum in Chicago who was not involved in the study, said the new Stegosaurus discovery supports something ... [more]

2:53:19 PM "Flock Of Dodos" Documentary Film Screening
HULIQ - Hickory,NC,USA

.... follows the screening, including Frederick Gregory of the UF Department of History and Bruce McFadden, Florida Museum vertebrate paleontology curator. ... [more]

11:55:30 AM Big debate rages over tiny `hobbit'
Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

Neuro-paleontologist Dean Falk, the head researcher, says she is "absolutely convinced" the brain of LB1, as the hobbit is officially known, is not abnormal ... [more]

11:18:19 AM Research revises ideas about primate ancestry
Yale Daily News - USA

Study leader Jonathan Bloch, a vertebrate paleontology curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History, collected the fossils from limestone blocks in ... [more]

7:45:31 AM Virginia Tech Geosciences Gets Noticed
Collegiate Times at Virginia Tech - Blacksburg,VA,USA

"He brings recognition to the Paleontology program and to Virginia Tech," Tracy said. "And this recognition is valuable." [more]

7:45:31 AM County shut researchers out of two 'live' caves
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA

Nick Czaplewski, associate staff curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Czaplewski became involved with the discovery ... [more]

1:43:19 AM We Don’t Need a Bigger Army
One Thousand Reasons - Redlands,CA,USA

Ranchers have joined forces with Native Americans, peace and justice advocates, environmentalists, archeologists, historians, paleontologists, educators and ... [more]



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